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Russia calls for Georgia arms embargo
Moscow (AFP) Sept 1, 2008An embargo on weapons sales to Georgia should be imposed to avert another conflict in the region, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Monday. "For starters, it would be correct to impose an embargo on delivery of arms to that regime, until another government turns Georgia into a normal state," Lavrov said in a speech to university students. He said Russia would continue to take ... more Russian general promises to 'destroy' any enemy: report 
Moscow (AFP) Sept 1, 2008The Russian army is capable of destroying any enemy, even one supported by the United States or Europe, a Russian general was quoted by ITAR-TASS as saying on Monday. "The operation aimed at enforcing peace in Georgia showed to the world that regardless of the aggressor and whether he receives support from Europe or from beyond the Atlantic, we have everything needed to destroy him and he ... more Scientists Find More Oil Fissures In Lake Baikal's Bedrock 
Novosibirsk, Russia (RIA Novosti) Sep 02, 2008Scientists have found two more cracks in the bedrock of Siberia's Lake Baikal from which crude oil seeps into the lake, bringing the total to three, an expedition member said on Tuesday. The second stage of a major expedition to explore the depths of the lake began on August 20. Arnold Tulokhonov, director of the Baikal Institute of Nature Management at the Russian Academy of Science ... more Australia reconsiders nuclear deal with Russia 
Canberra (AFP) Sept 1, 2008Australia is reconsidering a pact to sell uranium to Russia following its military push into Georgia, Foreign Minister Stephen Smith warned on Monday. He spoke as the head of a parliamentary committee examining the deal that would allow sales of uranium for use in Russia's civil nuclear power industry, expanding on the terms of a 1990 agreement, raised fears the yellowcake could be diverted ... more German Satellite Fleet Rapideye Is Launched 
Baikonur, Kazakhstan (SPX) Sep 01, 2008On 29 August 2008 at 09:15 CEST (13:15 local time) the RapidEye satellite fleet launched successfully on a DNEPR-1 launch vehicle from Baikonur spaceport in Kazakhstan. The five identical Earth observation satellites provide data from space for commercial use. The German Aerospace Center (DLR) has supported the German company RapidEye AG, based in Brandenburg, at a level of 15 million euros. ... more |
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Dushanbe (AFP) Aug 29, 2008Russia and ex-Soviet Tajikistan are to boost military ties, the two countries said in a statement Friday after talks between President Dmitry Medvedev and Tajik counterpart Emomali Rakhmon. "Russia and Tajikistan intend to strengthen military cooperation in future in order to guarantee national and regional security," said the joint statement, released after the talks in the Tajik capital ... more ISS Orbit Adjusted To Dodge Space Junk 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Aug 29, 2008The International Space Station's orbit has been adjusted to avoid a cluster of space garbage, Russia's Mission Control Center (MCC) said on Thursday. "Information on a possible collision was received from Russian and American services...and was used by the MCC specialists to perform calculations for an ISS orbit adjustment," mission control said. It said that the engines of the ... more Russia missile test heightens stand-off with West 
Moscow (AFP) Aug 28, 2008Russia on Thursday tested an inter-continental missile, heightening tensions with the West as France said the European Union could impose sanctions on Moscow over the Georgia conflict. Russia also sought international support at a summit with China and Central Asian nations. The missile test in northern Russia came barely a week after the United States completed an accord with Poland on ... more Russia tests ICBM designed to overcome missile shield 
Moscow (AFP) Aug 28, 2008Russia on Thursday said it test-fired an intercontinental missile designed to avoid detection by missile-defence systems, raising the temperature in a tense stand-off with the West over Georgia. The Topol RS-12M intercontinental ballistic missile was launched from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in northern Russia and flew 6,000 kilometres (3,700 miles) to hit a target on Kamchatka Peninsula in the ... more |
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Brussels (AFP) Aug 28, 2008NATO rebuffed Thursday Russian accusations that it was building up naval forces in the Black Sea, as the waters became a new source of tensions linked to the conflict in Georgia. "There is no NATO naval build up in the Black Sea as Russian authorities are claiming in the media," alliance spokeswoman Carmen Romero said, after Moscow warned that it would respond. The alliance said that ... more Analysis: Azerbaijan loses in Ossetia 
Washington (UPI) Aug 28, 2008 If the five-day Georgian-Russian conflict proved nothing else, it shattered the complacency of Western investors who believed that Georgia offered a reliable route for the transit of Caspian energy, as well as the naive beliefs of Bush administration officials, who, while chanting "Happiness is multiple pipelines," schemed that any such corridors would bypass both Russia and Iran. ... more Analysis: Caucasus crisis intensifies 
Berlin (UPI) Aug 28, 2008 The crisis over Georgia intensifies, with the European Union for the first time mulling sanctions against Russia after Moscow recognized the Georgian breakaway provinces of South Ossetia and Abkhazia as independent states. Observers predict a period of icy East-West relations. Just days before an extraordinary EU summit on the Caucasus crisis, EU leaders are issuing harsher words in the ... more Shipping companies eye NW Passage 
Bremen, Germany (UPI) Aug 28, 2008 Shipping companies want to send ships through the Arctic's Northwest and Northeast Passages now that they're free from ice, a German newspaper said. The Northeast Passage from the Russian island Novaya Zamlya through the Bering Strait could cut the trip from Hamburg, Germany, to Yokohama, Japan, by 40 percent, Spiegel Online reported Thursday. Data from the NASA satellite Aqua show the ... more
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